Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin?
Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy?
And why did Lenin love circus clowns?
The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
- ISBN10 1783717742
- ISBN13 9781783717743
- Publish Date 20 May 2016 (first published 20 April 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English